"I'm the 13th child and when you're the 13th child you are very Pro Life!"
Expressed by Fr. Lucien Larre, the gem that is facilitating our parish mission this week.
Oh my gosh - I could write reams and reams about this mission! I was so dry over Advent and Christmas. I kept chalking it up to worry over Luke. Sometimes I just had to say to God - I cannot pray. I cannot pray the Rosary. I cannot pray the Divine Mercy chaplet. I cannot go to daily Mass and I cannot go to Adoration. I could barely blog and corresponding with friends via email - well, it didn't happen. I hoped Christmas would cheer me up but I just felt dull and listless.
I kept reminding myself that faith does not depend on my fickle feelings. I kept reminding myself that I just needed to get to Sunday Mass and ask others to pray for me and my family and sooner or later the sun (or the Son...) would break through. And of course - He has!
This is no "dark night of the soul" on the scale of Teresa of Avila or John of the Cross. It's just one of those speed bumps you hit occasionally. And it's not a bad thing - many of you prayed for me which I am sure pleased Our Lord. Also, as my mom used to say, you can't appreciate the good without the bad. Time enough for total happiness when (if!) I get to Heaven! And when you put it in the context of world events such as what is happening in Haiti - plunged into every darkness imaginable - then I better just take my lumps and get on with it.
I do give thanks for Fr. Larre - his talks have fanned the smoldering wick back into a bright flame.
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